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' MARSHAL MORSE AND P. W. SAWYEB, or GRAY,MAINE.

Lam Patent No. 78,228, dared May 26, 186s.

IMPROVED CHEESE-GUTTER.

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Be it known that we, MARSHAL MORSE and P. W. SAWYER, of' Gray, in the county of Cumberland, and State of Maine, have invented a new and useful Improved Cheese-Cutter; and we hereby declare the following to be a. full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others to make and use our invention, reference boing had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation.

Figure 2, an end eleva-tion. I

A is a detail ofthe segment-gear. I

Our invention consists in a. certain arrangement of devices for operating a cheese-cutter, and also in a. device for rendering the-knife automatic in its withdrawal from the cheese. i i

B shows la standard, set on the base, C. D is a turn-table, ona pivot at a, and balanced, moreover, by a.V

roller at l. c is a hand-crank, by which to -turn the small gear d, set in the upright, E. e is a. larger gear, matching d. On the same shaft with e is another gear, f, workingr` in the sliding toothed rack g, and having teeth only on a. portion of its edges, as illustrated at A. h is a coiled spring, attached to the rack at z', and the standard B at j. Rigidly attached to the sliding toothed rack is the'slide c, bearing the knife l. By turning the crank c, the gear e is caused to revolve, and thus the gear f, or A, is moved.' Thus the rack g is dra-wn downward, and with it the knife Z. By this turning of'the crank, c, the teeth off, or A, are a-ll caught into the teeth ofthe rack g, and when the knife Z has reached the table D,`so as to have cut theeheese, the smoothpart off, or A, comes around to the rack,- and thus forces it downw-.irdno longer. At .the same time the rack is drawn upward by the coilh, and withfit, of course, the knife also, and thus is ready `for another cut. The cheese is placed on theturntableD.'

-As the successive slices are cut from the cheese, the table Dima'y be revolved so as to present` to the knife the desired size of piece or slice next to -be cut. an is an adjustable slide-stdp,'to prevent the'knife from rising, bv the operation of the coil 71higher than desirable. i

We are aware that cutters have been made operating a knife by an arrangement -of gears, and having a table for the cheese to rest upon. These we donot claim, but i What We do claim as our invention, and desire to 'secure by Letters Patent, is- 1. The combination ofthe coil h, rack g, slide c,'and knife Z, as and forthe purpose described. 2. `The slide-stop m, in comhination'with-the self-retracting knife l, as and for the purposes described. MARSHAL MORSE, P. W. SAWYER. Witnesses: f

W. H. CLIrronD, WM. FRAM: SEAvi-sr. 

